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Petition to Enforce the Easement

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Help us by are calling on our state leaders to enforce the easement granted to Enbridge for their Line 5 oil pipelines to be allowed to operate in the Straits of Mackinac.

Take action to protect the Great Lakes from a disastrous oil spill.

Please note that signing this petition here has nothing to do with the Line 5 ballot proposal that is being circulated.

Michigan Governor Snyder and Attorney General Schuette:

As you know, the Canadian pipeline company Enbridge pumps almost 23 million gallons of oil every day through its Line 5 pipeline, from Superior, Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ontario.

Enbridge is currently operating in violation of the 1953 easement agreement with the State of Michigan to operate Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. Turbulent currents and winter conditions make the Straits the worst possible location for a spill. Required supports for Line 5 have washed out for the second time in two years. Independent experts have identified at least seven state and federal violations of this legal agreement with the state.

Since 1988, this 64-year-old pipeline has failed at least fifteen times, dumping about 260,000 gallons of oil on land and in marshes. This pipeline crosses along the bottom of the Great Lakes at the Straits of Mackinac, and through many sensitive inland lakes, rivers, and wetlands.

This pipeline poses an unacceptable risk to our water, ecosystems, health, and economy.

I urge you to act as legal public trustees of our waters and bottomlands to enforce the 1953 Easement and immediately shut down Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac to protect the Great Lakes from a catastrophic oil spill.

Join me and sign the petition to shut down the flow of oil in #Line 5. Michigan must act now to protect the Great Lakes

Vicki Wiederhold signed
2017-11-19 14:54:13 -0500

I have personally seen what an Embridge oil spill looks like first hand and have many pictures of the disaster to remind me. That was on a creek/river. I can’t begin to imagine what it would do to our gorgeous straits.

Thelma Clarage signed
2017-11-19 14:50:12 -0500

Vi Winstrom signed
2017-11-19 14:46:39 -0500

Brett sebastian signed
2017-11-19 14:45:33 -0500

Brett Sebastian

Cassandra Damer signed
2017-11-19 14:44:14 -0500

Heath Post signed
2017-11-19 14:43:51 -0500

Jennifer Buhinicek signed
2017-11-19 14:41:51 -0500

Barry Johnson signed
2017-11-19 14:39:20 -0500

Barry Johnson

diane carr signed
2017-11-19 14:37:04 -0500

Only the refucklicans would hesitate to shut this down! especially after enbridges history with oilspills and neglect! This line is in bad shape and an accident, long over due, waiting to happen! WTF is wrong with these people , that they would put this fresh water supply at risk? someone please bring CHARGESAGAINST them for eco terrorism NOW!

Sherry Knoppers signed
2017-11-19 14:36:19 -0500

Elizabeth Connors signed
2017-11-19 14:23:59 -0500

Linda Anderson signed
2017-11-19 14:15:02 -0500

Sarah Adrian signed
2017-11-19 14:10:03 -0500

Shut down Line 5 before it creates an oil spill which will permanently harm the great lakes.

Janna Zeilstra signed
2017-11-19 14:08:54 -0500

Melody DiGiglio signed
2017-11-19 13:59:28 -0500

Jo LoVasco signed
2017-11-19 13:52:20 -0500

We are too intelligent at this point in time, to waste our water on dead fossil fuel rather than life giving renewable energies. Please protect the Great Lakes. The entire earth depends on it.